XBMC4xbox booting troubles

[marky]

Hiya,

for some time, my version of XBMC has started to take ages to boot. The strange thing is that this only happens from time to time. I've been trying to track this down with the logs, but unfortunately I've run out of ideas what to try. What I found out is that it must be connected to "Setup DirectX".

When looking at a "normal" boot log, everything seems fine, but again and again it looks like this:

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01:22:58 M: 56651776  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
01:22:58 M: 56631296  NOTICE: Starting XBMC4Xbox.  Built on Dec  8 2012 (SVN:31648, compiler 1310)
01:22:58 M: 56631296  NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: Q:\
01:22:58 M: 56631296  NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: Q:\UserData
01:22:58 M: 56631296  NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: Q:\
01:22:58 M: 56631296  NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: Z:\
01:22:58 M: 56631296  NOTICE: The executable running is: F:\XBMC\default.xbe
01:22:58 M: 56631296  NOTICE: Log File is located: Q:\xbmc.log
01:22:58 M: 56631296  NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
01:22:58 M: 56631296  NOTICE: Unmapped drive T
01:22:58 M: 56631296  NOTICE: Mapping drive T to Harddisk0\Partition6\XBMC\UserData\
01:22:58 M: 56631296  NOTICE: Setup DirectX
01:29:36 M: 56606720  NOTICE: Mapping drive C to Harddisk0\Partition2
01:29:36 M: 56606720  NOTICE: Mapping drive E to Harddisk0\Partition1
01:29:36 M: 56606720  NOTICE: Unmapped drive D
01:29:36 M: 56606720  NOTICE: Mapping drive D to Cdrom0
01:29:36 M: 56606720  NOTICE: Mapping drive F to Harddisk0\Partition6
01:29:36 M: 56606720  NOTICE: Mapping drive G to Harddisk0\Partition7
01:29:36 M: 56606720  NOTICE: Mapping drive X to Harddisk0\Partition3
01:29:36 M: 56606720  NOTICE: Mapping drive Y to Harddisk0\Partition4
01:29:36 M: 56602624  NOTICE: Unmapped drive Z
01:29:36 M: 56602624  NOTICE: Mapping drive Z to Harddisk0\Partition5
01:29:36 M: 56602624  NOTICE: load settings...
01:29:36 M: 56602624  NOTICE: Mapping drive P to Harddisk0\Partition6\XBMC\UserData\
01:29:36 M: 56602624  NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/
01:29:36 M: 56602624  NOTICE: loading special://masterprofile/guisettings.xml
01:29:36 M: 55705600  NOTICE: Getting hardware information now...
01:29:36 M: 55685120  NOTICE: Checking resolution 1
01:29:36 M: 55492608  NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/playercorefactory.xml.
01:29:36 M: 55472128  NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration

As you can see, setting up DirectX takes approx. 7 minutes. When XBMC boots properly, as it also does sometimes, this takes less than a second. Another thing which is really strange is the fact that this only happens when I turn off power because the system is stuck. It never happens after the box was turned off for some time. As I cannot really reproduce the problem, I cannot provide a proper debug log, but if this helps I can keep on trying.

Any help much appreciated.

Greetz,
-marky

[professor_jonny]

change the hdd ?
You can also check the hdd in your pc with hirens boot cd and scan for errors in the smart data and proform an extended low level read and write test.

But it it was me i'd be inclined to try putting in a no dvd bios if it is chipped and remove the dvd drive and see if the problem goes away, i had a xbox with a thompson dvd drive that did the same thing.